Listening to the president speaking yesterday in Yuma, AZ, I think he did a good job of identifying the problem, but the solution still isn't clear enough to me. The focus on 'a comprehensive immigration bill' makes me cringe. Not because I don't want the problem fixed, but because he is not putting border security first on the list.
He said 'I strongly believe that Congress needs to pass a comprehensive immigration bill, because you cannot secure the border unless you have all elements of a comprehensive plan in place.'
If that statement doesn't send chills down your spine I don't know what will. Seems to me that you don't need an excuse to secure the border, and to suggest that it can't be done until something else gets done just doesn't make sense to me. Instead, he is making an excuse why he isn't going to secure the border first.
His statement below in it's total context.
I strongly believe that Congress needs to pass a comprehensive immigration bill, because you cannot secure the border unless you have all elements of a comprehensive plan in place. Doing our duty to secure the border requires a comprehensive approach. The United States Senate needs to end by the act -- act by the end of this month. They need to do their duty and get a bill out so we can get on about the business of getting a comprehensive bill to my desk.
I have to give credit to Neal Boortz for this analogy, it's a good one. Let's assume you have a water pipe break in your house and the floor starts to flood. Under the President's plan, remember you need to have a comprehensive plan to do it right, so you go about trying to determine what will be damaged and how you are going to repair or replace, who is going to do the work, and where you're going to get the supplies from, and get competitive bids while you're at it, all BEFORE you shut off the water. And that makes sense to who?
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